La. Civ. Code art. 892
This is the official text of La. Civ. Code art. 892, part of Louisiana’s Civil Code — louisiana's civil law tradition codifies persons, property, obligations, and family relations here rather than in a separate statutory code.
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Devolution of separate property in absence of parents or in absence of brothers and sisters
Official statutory text
If the deceased leaves neither descendants nor parents, his brothers or sisters or descendants from them succeed to his separate property in full ownership to the exclusion of other ascendants and other collaterals.
If the deceased leaves neither descendants nor brothers or sisters, nor descendants from them, his parent or parents succeed to the separate property to the exclusion of other ascendants and other collaterals.
Acts 1981, No. 919, ยง1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
If the deceased leaves neither descendants nor brothers or sisters, nor descendants from them, his parent or parents succeed to the separate property to the exclusion of other ascendants and other collaterals.
Acts 1981, No. 919, ยง1, eff. Jan. 1, 1982.
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